How is this not upfront: they're giving away a tool that allows some shops to use more windows machines rather than adding unix machines. It's pretty damn clear what the motive is, so you can decide if it does you good or not, and use it or not use it accordingly.
I'll bet you think the free donut at Krispy Kreme is immoral too.
You mean like whitehouse.com? I pop jokes about that site every once in a while and get blank stares... I wonder how many people have visited it later to find out why I was laughing about this "government" web site.
Really, any web site that has significantly different content than you would expect from the name is lame - so I don't shed any tears for cybersquatters who loose their domains.
4.5GB? And you call yourselves nerds?
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Where'd we get 4.5GB? Is that a compromise between 4.3GB (actual capacity of a DVD blank) and 4.7GB (stated capacity: the same industry lie as used with hard drives - it's really BB).
Yes, I know this came directly from tomshardware.com. They should know better too.;)
Now that I think about it, I'm way too detail oriented.
I'm easily distracted from boring things, but here are a few things that have helped me:
1. Have a buddy who depends on you for help. When he calls at 10am asking for help on a problem that you haven't started, you start working on it.
2. Prioritize, but don't be afraid to switch between tasks sometimes. I still do this at work: if I'm getting nowhere on one task, I switch to something that I can make immediate progress on (sucks when all you have left is the hard stuff, but that means you got the rest done!). Don't consider fun stuff as an alternative to tough problems.
3. Small goals, small rewards. No more oreos until you finish the next paragraph. And hey, if you get on a roll just keep going. Even if you don't finish everything at once, you'll have less to finish later.
4. "Anything worth doing is worth doing half assed." I've spent 10 minutes trying to figure out a sentence without typing a word (and then gotten distracted). If I type a rough draft and fix it later I can get on to the parts that I already have worked out in my head.
And I agree with some of the other comments about exercising and eating proper meals.
While it does have some cult following due to the original Vampire Hunder D, this anime film didn't even make it to theaters in my city (the web site had a "tour dates" listing...). Good thing for DVD.
Maybe they should sue users dumb enough to buy the product after hearing about this activation scheme. In case you haven't been paying attention, the activation prevents you from printing old returns if you change your computer hardware. You're supposed to keep old returns for 7 years and NO ONE keeps the same computer configuration for that long. Therefore, electronic copies of your returns become unprintable (therefore unusable)... not my idea of smart.
So, if you've been inside a walmart, why would you ever want to go back?
Unless I need something immediately (so I have to go to BB or CC) or it's extremely heavy, I buy online. And once you're online, why still buy from an overpriced store like bestbuy.com when buy.com (or the myriad of mom-n-pop stores you can find through price search engines) have better prices? Sales tax will be a pain, but I'd still avoid both the mortar and brick stores AND their online counterparts when I can pay 75% as much elsewhere. The online counterparts to BB, CC, and WM exist only for the ignorant (who flock to brand names) and for small items that aren't worth shopping around for a better price.
BTW, I don't know about WM but BB and CC always charged sales tax because if they have a store in your state they have to charge sales tax. It's only the companies that exist only in the sending state, not the recieving state, that got to skip out on sales taxes.
I thought valentines day was another drinking holiday. What's this about romance?
Seriously, if your sweetie doesn't believe that you love her by valentines day, that one day won't change things.
Right on. I wondered why they left out asciimation, considering it's one of the coolest ascii sites out there. Has anyone watched the entire thing (at least what's done)?
Doesn't that just guarantee a disadvantage? I know I personally may pick up the AMD clawhammer (or whatever it's called when they release it) but I'd never touch an itanium, because there are hundreds of apps I'd still want to run that are 32-bit based.
And remember that few businesses want to incur the cost of replacing their entire software suite on their servers (you'll spend way more on that than the hardware itself if you do anything more than run an exchange server), so Opteron has a good advantage there (if it ever arrives).
I would make a distinction between the individual's right to modify in any way works they have purchased, without redistributing them
I agree that modifying the content in any way and reselling is obviously against the law and mostly just stupid.
Anyway, if you don't want to see nudity, don't watch Titanic. On the other hand, the filtering software that plays the ORIGINAL media and simply doesn't play the "undesired" parts is probably within the rights of the consumer. If I cut a wire in my DVD player and only watched the even scanlines for a DVD I'd be within my rights, because the disc itself is unmodified. Granted I think the people who use filtering software/hardware should be sterilized because we don't need them reproducing or raising children (as another reader mentioned: the ratings system was created for a reason...kids aren't supposed to watch R-Rated films).
Not such a close correlation. Sharman could be liable because Kazaa is built for piracy, and makes no attempt whatsoever to prevent it. If you'll notice that many (all?) guns come with gun locks on them, and require background checks (in most states) and other such restrictions that attempt to restrict illicit/accidental use. I think the results of such suits are more likely to be greater restrictions rather than punative damages for the results of product use.
Coincidentally, the altanet defense that people think is cool now was what everyone hated before when they learned it was scumware.
I think it's a good move (but may not buy into it immediately since my DV cam is holding up). I actually wanted to build one of these type things myself until I figured a few problems: 1. quite expensive to buy the individual components small enough to fit together. 2. It would be a LOT of work 3. Chicks don't dig a fancy camcorder that's lumpy and duck taped together. So this is a better solution.:)
Cutting the commercials is even worse than playing local commercials during the SuperBowl (they really need to ban retarded local commercials during the entire game). Anyway, I know the commercials usually show up on usenet (groups like alt.binaries.multimedia and such) and I know there are free news servers... but all that depends on having a broadband connection and a computer you can install programs on. Good luck out there (and not just for the commercials)
A fear of being too late in misplaced in this case.
It depends on how you look at it. On one side, it's always too late because if it was just a little sooner a lot of damage could be avoided. Hindsight is always 20/20... On the other hand, it's never too late to do some good, even if it's not as much good as it would have been 10 years ago.
Besides the obvious answer (to the executives' pockets) where is all of the money going? I don't believe that it costs as much to produce an album as it does to make a movie, and the costs to replicate CDs is almost nothing compared to DVDs (which are also cheaper these days).
So the main problem here isn't that people aren't willing to pay for music, it's that labels are so inefficient and wasteful (and corrupt) that they can't produce a quality product for a reasonable price. If they were efficient they should be able to stay rich by dropping the sales prices to $5 per album, or by including a lot of extras, thereby maintaining sales. A lot of people prefer a nice professionally produced disc, but the price is just higher than it's worth.
I'd think this could be good if they release code (or someone figures it out from the server code) for the client so we can be rid of the of the real client once and for all. If it can be a spyware-free plugin for any application, real might actually become useful. I'd rather not use either microsoft's latest client or any version of real if I can help it.
As far as I can tell, neither company has produce a viable "media player" since MS media player 6.4. College kids programming in their free time are putting out better programs to play media files, so maybe we should leave the client interface development out of the hands of the clueless (MS and Real).
As far as I remember from previous coverage, they could have gotten the name right away by filing a John Doe lawsuit against the user. Now that they don't actually have to file suit against the users, they can just ask for your names and send N*Stink to your house as punishment until you stop downloading music. They can use legal intimidation tactics without the expense and bad face involved with filing a suit.
By the way, this also means that they can watch high-bandwidth traders over multiple days and IP address changes, rather than just looking at one IP address for however long it is used.
They claim to be the fastest console out there, but they won't be out for another 11 months... we could have a PS3 or a XBox2 by then that kicks its ass, so we can tell right there that marketing made up a lot of the information on that page...
And yes, if they promise 32k games my first thought is 32Kb games... most of those games would have to be freeware and shareware computer (or other emulated) games that would be delivered by their online service because they're not worth a CD (unless you get them all on one CD when you buy the console).
Bah. It's an interesting concept but the fact is we evolved OSs and programming languages as *layers*, one on top of the other, to increase efficiency. The point is that everyone on some platform (say NT-based) has a common set of interfaces. However, to program NT I don't need to know all of the windows API calls unless I really need to delve into them. I can use C++, or run IDL, or maybe even code some assembly. If each was its own OS, I'd have to reboot into that OS rather than switching applications, so having a single entity would be very ineffective for any real engineer.
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How is this not upfront: they're giving away a tool that allows some shops to use more windows machines rather than adding unix machines. It's pretty damn clear what the motive is, so you can decide if it does you good or not, and use it or not use it accordingly.
I'll bet you think the free donut at Krispy Kreme is immoral too.
You mean like whitehouse.com? I pop jokes about that site every once in a while and get blank stares... I wonder how many people have visited it later to find out why I was laughing about this "government" web site.
Really, any web site that has significantly different content than you would expect from the name is lame - so I don't shed any tears for cybersquatters who loose their domains.
Where'd we get 4.5GB? Is that a compromise between 4.3GB (actual capacity of a DVD blank) and 4.7GB (stated capacity: the same industry lie as used with hard drives - it's really BB). Yes, I know this came directly from tomshardware.com. They should know better too. ;)
Now that I think about it, I'm way too detail oriented.
I'm easily distracted from boring things, but here are a few things that have helped me:
1. Have a buddy who depends on you for help. When he calls at 10am asking for help on a problem that you haven't started, you start working on it.
2. Prioritize, but don't be afraid to switch between tasks sometimes. I still do this at work: if I'm getting nowhere on one task, I switch to something that I can make immediate progress on (sucks when all you have left is the hard stuff, but that means you got the rest done!). Don't consider fun stuff as an alternative to tough problems.
3. Small goals, small rewards. No more oreos until you finish the next paragraph. And hey, if you get on a roll just keep going. Even if you don't finish everything at once, you'll have less to finish later.
4. "Anything worth doing is worth doing half assed." I've spent 10 minutes trying to figure out a sentence without typing a word (and then gotten distracted). If I type a rough draft and fix it later I can get on to the parts that I already have worked out in my head.
And I agree with some of the other comments about exercising and eating proper meals.
Kind of like how DVDs support "optional" encryption? ...let me know when you find one without...
Try low budget porn. The whole world needs porn, so why spend the money producing 7 different versions of the disc?
While it does have some cult following due to the original Vampire Hunder D, this anime film didn't even make it to theaters in my city (the web site had a "tour dates" listing...). Good thing for DVD.
Maybe they should sue users dumb enough to buy the product after hearing about this activation scheme. In case you haven't been paying attention, the activation prevents you from printing old returns if you change your computer hardware. You're supposed to keep old returns for 7 years and NO ONE keeps the same computer configuration for that long. Therefore, electronic copies of your returns become unprintable (therefore unusable)... not my idea of smart.
So, if you've been inside a walmart, why would you ever want to go back?
Unless I need something immediately (so I have to go to BB or CC) or it's extremely heavy, I buy online. And once you're online, why still buy from an overpriced store like bestbuy.com when buy.com (or the myriad of mom-n-pop stores you can find through price search engines) have better prices? Sales tax will be a pain, but I'd still avoid both the mortar and brick stores AND their online counterparts when I can pay 75% as much elsewhere. The online counterparts to BB, CC, and WM exist only for the ignorant (who flock to brand names) and for small items that aren't worth shopping around for a better price.
BTW, I don't know about WM but BB and CC always charged sales tax because if they have a store in your state they have to charge sales tax. It's only the companies that exist only in the sending state, not the recieving state, that got to skip out on sales taxes.
I thought valentines day was another drinking holiday. What's this about romance? Seriously, if your sweetie doesn't believe that you love her by valentines day, that one day won't change things.
You missed yesterday's ascii article... someone linked to an ascii porn site :)
Right on. I wondered why they left out asciimation, considering it's one of the coolest ascii sites out there. Has anyone watched the entire thing (at least what's done)?
Doesn't that just guarantee a disadvantage? I know I personally may pick up the AMD clawhammer (or whatever it's called when they release it) but I'd never touch an itanium, because there are hundreds of apps I'd still want to run that are 32-bit based.
And remember that few businesses want to incur the cost of replacing their entire software suite on their servers (you'll spend way more on that than the hardware itself if you do anything more than run an exchange server), so Opteron has a good advantage there (if it ever arrives).
We need to import that one back into Battlefield 1942 or other FPS games. It would save the effort of crossing the map to find your enemy. :)
I would make a distinction between the individual's right to modify in any way works they have purchased, without redistributing them
I agree that modifying the content in any way and reselling is obviously against the law and mostly just stupid.
Anyway, if you don't want to see nudity, don't watch Titanic. On the other hand, the filtering software that plays the ORIGINAL media and simply doesn't play the "undesired" parts is probably within the rights of the consumer. If I cut a wire in my DVD player and only watched the even scanlines for a DVD I'd be within my rights, because the disc itself is unmodified. Granted I think the people who use filtering software/hardware should be sterilized because we don't need them reproducing or raising children (as another reader mentioned: the ratings system was created for a reason...kids aren't supposed to watch R-Rated films).
Actually, we read Asterix y Obelix comics in high school French. I doubt anyone learns english from Disney cartoons (at least I hope not).
Not such a close correlation. Sharman could be liable because Kazaa is built for piracy, and makes no attempt whatsoever to prevent it. If you'll notice that many (all?) guns come with gun locks on them, and require background checks (in most states) and other such restrictions that attempt to restrict illicit/accidental use. I think the results of such suits are more likely to be greater restrictions rather than punative damages for the results of product use.
Coincidentally, the altanet defense that people think is cool now was what everyone hated before when they learned it was scumware.
I think it's a good move (but may not buy into it immediately since my DV cam is holding up). I actually wanted to build one of these type things myself until I figured a few problems: :)
1. quite expensive to buy the individual components small enough to fit together.
2. It would be a LOT of work
3. Chicks don't dig a fancy camcorder that's lumpy and duck taped together.
So this is a better solution.
Cutting the commercials is even worse than playing local commercials during the SuperBowl (they really need to ban retarded local commercials during the entire game). Anyway, I know the commercials usually show up on usenet (groups like alt.binaries.multimedia and such) and I know there are free news servers... but all that depends on having a broadband connection and a computer you can install programs on. Good luck out there (and not just for the commercials)
A fear of being too late in misplaced in this case.
It depends on how you look at it. On one side, it's always too late because if it was just a little sooner a lot of damage could be avoided. Hindsight is always 20/20... On the other hand, it's never too late to do some good, even if it's not as much good as it would have been 10 years ago.
Besides the obvious answer (to the executives' pockets) where is all of the money going? I don't believe that it costs as much to produce an album as it does to make a movie, and the costs to replicate CDs is almost nothing compared to DVDs (which are also cheaper these days).
So the main problem here isn't that people aren't willing to pay for music, it's that labels are so inefficient and wasteful (and corrupt) that they can't produce a quality product for a reasonable price. If they were efficient they should be able to stay rich by dropping the sales prices to $5 per album, or by including a lot of extras, thereby maintaining sales. A lot of people prefer a nice professionally produced disc, but the price is just higher than it's worth.
Eh... I guess I have a short attention span. It wasn't on the page directly (I did look at it), it was through the parent page. Oh, well.
I'd think this could be good if they release code (or someone figures it out from the server code) for the client so we can be rid of the of the real client once and for all. If it can be a spyware-free plugin for any application, real might actually become useful. I'd rather not use either microsoft's latest client or any version of real if I can help it.
As far as I can tell, neither company has produce a viable "media player" since MS media player 6.4. College kids programming in their free time are putting out better programs to play media files, so maybe we should leave the client interface development out of the hands of the clueless (MS and Real).
As far as I remember from previous coverage, they could have gotten the name right away by filing a John Doe lawsuit against the user. Now that they don't actually have to file suit against the users, they can just ask for your names and send N*Stink to your house as punishment until you stop downloading music. They can use legal intimidation tactics without the expense and bad face involved with filing a suit.
By the way, this also means that they can watch high-bandwidth traders over multiple days and IP address changes, rather than just looking at one IP address for however long it is used.
They claim to be the fastest console out there, but they won't be out for another 11 months... we could have a PS3 or a XBox2 by then that kicks its ass, so we can tell right there that marketing made up a lot of the information on that page...
And yes, if they promise 32k games my first thought is 32Kb games... most of those games would have to be freeware and shareware computer (or other emulated) games that would be delivered by their online service because they're not worth a CD (unless you get them all on one CD when you buy the console).
Bah. It's an interesting concept but the fact is we evolved OSs and programming languages as *layers*, one on top of the other, to increase efficiency. The point is that everyone on some platform (say NT-based) has a common set of interfaces. However, to program NT I don't need to know all of the windows API calls unless I really need to delve into them. I can use C++, or run IDL, or maybe even code some assembly. If each was its own OS, I'd have to reboot into that OS rather than switching applications, so having a single entity would be very ineffective for any real engineer.